By Zarith H.

On the eve of the ceasefire,
The loss of life continues,
Is it so blatant now that the we live in a double standard world?
Where people of colour everywhere hides from the bombs and the elusive “Human Rights”
Where are the global feminist leaders?
Where are those who supposedly defended children, older people and the freedom of journalists and healthcare workers?
Where are those leaders who always imply that they are the defenders of the “free world”?

Where are the ceasefire in Congo and Sudan?
They cant even douse the fire of the crumbling “Western” ideologies.

A hush, not peace, lingers in Gaza’s breath,
The soil remembers what the bombs have sung,
The blood of the lost still stains the tongue,
Yet the tongues of the Human Rights defenders remains clamped and twisted

In the West, faith falters, ideals decay,
Justice and rights are slipping away,
A storm of hate in the far right’s grin
Bringing a blend of morons working overtime
But in time, the truth will emancipate
And distinguish the fire of the darkness

As Maya Angelou has promised that still,
we will rise,
And all of our LGBT hearts, in every hue,
We are the colours that they cannot erase,
People of all colours, unbound by race

We will forge a world where’s love the creed,
Where no child cries, no soul must bleed,
Together we stand,  as night withdraws,
For we are the warriors of humanity’s cause